All Health Service Journal articles in Opinion – Page 8
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News
Delayed dicharge can hinder patient safety
In response to your article on bed-blocking (12 April) Alison Moore is right to highlight the problems of delayed transfer of care, but fails to convey the problems that patients experience.
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Commissioning and clinicians
The ideals of commissioning are mocked. One may sympathise with policy-making born of frustration, but when rhetoric begets sham and folly, then challenge should be clearly heard.
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Drug dilemma
I was puzzled by David Lock's advice in NICE rulings to PCTs to have a policy to refuse to fund emerging treatments except in exceptional circumstances.
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Comment
Patient safety: err on the side of caution
I wish to add a mental health service perspective to the debate prompted by Frank Burns' insightful article 'Name of the game is not no blame' and his challenging assertions (opinion, p16, 12 April)..
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Social marketing: a view from the front
Social marketing seems to be a confusing term that actually means both understanding people and keeping their needs at the fulcrum of all organisational activity.
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HSJ got it wrong over acute trust 'hitlist'
I was shocked and disappointed to read allegations in HSJ that Surrey and Sussex Healthcare trust could be merging with or have its services taken over by Frimley Park Hospital foundation trust. There is absolutely no truth in this suggestion as reported by Helen Mooney (news, page 5, 19 April. ...
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It's up to executive teams to champion productive wards
Do ward staff need the encouragement and support of their executive team to get on and make changes to improve everyday processes?
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Time to draw a line under Granger era
The national programme for IT is reeling from its most damning verdict yet - this week's report from the Commons public accounts committee that condemns uncertainty over the schedule of implementation and value for money (see news, page 9).
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Helen Rowntree on using patient safety indicators
The past few months have seen the beginnings of a shift in the prevailing NHS wisdom about patient safety and how best to promote and improve it. The emphasis is moving firmly towards greater openness and accountability - a point well made by Frank Burns in his recent HSJ piece ...
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Overtime is out of line
It was interesting to compare your headline - 'Thousands doing unpaid overtime' with the Healthcare Commission's press release on the topic. The latter did not mention in its commentary on the survey results the huge amount of unpaid overtime done by NHS staff, only reporting details in the sector breakdown ...
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The trouble with cancer services
I read with interest the article by Anna Donald (opinion, page 15, 12 April). I to have been diagnosed with breast cancer and totally agree with her comments. The medical treatment I received was second to none but as Ms Donald.says it is the relationships that matters.
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In defence of primary care data
Although I am usually a fan of Alan Maynard (HSJ Intelligence supplement, page 8, 15 March).his assertion that 'primary care is still largely a data-free domain' is clearly tosh. NHS primary care probably has the best primary care information in the world.
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Patient safety: the blame game
I find HSJ's reporting of the concept of 'no blame' in patient safety incidents.incredibly disappointing and disquieting (opinion, page 16, 12 April).
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David Woodhead on social marketing
'It is naive to suggest that the effectiveness of interventions alone is the only issue we face in seeking to change behaviour. There are wider challenges in terms of respecting diversity and ensuring our work is culturally appropriate'
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Jasbir Sunner on academic health science centres
Our vision and strategy for an AHSC, strongly supported by clinicians, bodes well for the future of hospital services in north west London
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Patient safety: Avoiding blame will not remove danger
Is the desire to establish a 'no blame' culture around patient safety becoming dangerously close to being seen as an end in itself rather than as a necessary aid to progress?
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Why the talking cure can help ease the reconfiguration blues
A list is circulating - despite Department of Health denials - of 18 trusts that have been deemed unviable in their present form and on which strategic health authorities will be acting. There will probably be few surprises in the names and no surprise that major restructuring of acute services ...